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Rethinking financial authorization beyond identities and roles
Original: Abstract Financial authorization is usually modeled through identities and roles. A user is authenticated. A service has
A technical writer argues that financial authorization, traditionally modeled through identities and roles, breaks down when economic authority enters the picture. In the conventional model, a user is authenticated, a service holds a role, an operator belongs to a group, and a backend checks whether a caller may act. The piece examines where this identity-based model stops working as economic authority becomes more abstract, sparking discussion among security and systems engineers.
Why now: It challenges a widely held assumption in security engineering about how authorization should work.
Evidence
- Abstract Financial authorization is usually modeled through identities and roles. A user is authenticated. A service has a role. An operator belongs to a group. A backend checks whether the caller may perform an action. This model works until economic authority becomes… · hackaday@www.urbanmind.net · 2
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